Grid applications: a seamless approach with web services
Jagan Kommineni · 2003
Computational Grids are emerging as a new paradigm for sharing and aggregation of geographically distributed resources for solving large-scale computational problems in science, engineering and commerce. Web services are new distributed application components that conform to the standards that make them externally available and solve certain kinds of widespread industry problems in various disciplines. We have demonstrated in this paper a way to integrate the execution locations and the data locations seamlessly with web services. We call this approach a GridFiles approach. GridFiles is a novel mechanism, which allows manipulation of files or sockets on a remote location as if it is local. We achieved this by over loading the IO primitives in conventional languages so that they support inter-process communications as well as file operations across a distributed infrastructure similar to the local environment.